Cardinal Alfonso Llopez Trujillo announced Tuesday that the Colombian Catholic Church has excommunicated all persons involved in obtaining an abortion for an 11-year-old girl, who became pregnant after she was raped.[...]

Archishop Luis Augusto Castro, president of the Bishops’ Conference of Colombia, spoke out against the Court’s decision to accept abortion in difficult cases involving rape or incest, saying “The child is innocent…the criminal should be punished and put in jail for a long time, but the child should not have to pay for the sins of another. He is an innocent baby.”

Okay, I'm going to implant a large, obtrussive device in your abdomen. If it is removed prematurely, it will kill someone you don't know. This device will make your life hell. After the nine month period, you will be required to take care of this device for years to come.

“The child is innocent…the criminal should be punished and put in jail for a long time, but the child should not have to pay for the sins of another.\"I completly agree.\"He is an innocent baby.\"You where talking about the unborn, I thought you where talking about the poor girl that was raped.

Forget the \"innocent child\" who was raped, our only concern now is that her pre-teen body and mind be forced through a more-than-likely unhealthy and traumatizing pregnancy which she must suffer through no fault of her own. Our only concern now is her fetus.

It's not bad enough that an 11 year old is raped, you think she should risk her life to double in size and give birth to a rapist's baby? Nice. I'm sure she'll be a well-adjusted, 11 year old mother.

Feel good that you were excommunicated from that group of short-sided idiots. The stories that I usually see involving Cardinals would lead me to believe that there is a good chance Alfonso Llopez Trujillo was the sperm donar.

How many eleven-year-olds can safely deliver what could very well be a full, normal-size baby? Apparently she's well through puberty, but I'd have to think this would count as a (physical as well as mental) health-of-the-mother exception.

On the other hand I'm glad they now apparently find the idea that believers' sins have been washed away by a ritual sacrifice of an innocent child of God appalling and also have abandoned the concept of original sin.

Huh? What do you mean the same reasoning doesn't apply to those cases? Why? ... Because it just doesn't?! What kind of argument is that? ... What's a matter of faith and why would this be one? ... You say the world is mysterious and nobody understands it completely? What does that have to do with this? ... Some things must just be accepted? Oh, come on! ... Why are you running away with your hands on your ears while cursing me?

Yeah, forcing an 11 y/o to have her rapist's baby, that'll be good for everyone. Jeez! This guy's so out of touch he doesn't even know the gender of a girl. Why should he be in charge of anything more important than a half a glass of tepid water?

I'm pro-life, but in cases like this, common sense would tell you to abort. First, the girl is not at fault for the rape. Why does she have to suffer and spend the rest if her childhood as a mother if it wasn't even her choice? Second, the fetus isn't technically a \"baby\" until it grows a brain and a beating heart. I don't support abortion for no reason, but to make a kid suffer for something she didn't do, and to make her spend her childhood nurturing a baby, AND to put her life at risk by making her have a baby at a premature size and age, ALL for the sake of a few cells who haven't even become self aware, is the most evil thing in the world. I don't think God himself would approve of this.